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Great programmers can make great stuff using anything.

Just because I _can_ doesn't mean that I _want to_.

I'm willing to work in lots of environments. In the last 2 years I have done projects for pay in Perl, PHP, Java, C++, Python and various in house languages you probably haven't heard of. However I have to be paid a healthy premium for the displeasure of working with PHP. And if I was asked to do it all the time, eventually I'd leave and find a better job working in something else.



I thought the actual programming problems also mattered to great programmers.

Would you rather do something boring in a beautiful language vs. something interesting in an ugly language?


That's a false dichotomy. There are plenty of interesting problems to be solved out there offering the use of better tools than PHP.


Only if they're greenfield projects. But if you're a job hunter, and there's a really interesting project using legacy code in a language you don't like, are you going to turn down a job offer because of that?




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